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Homosexualism

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Homosexuality, the state of being homosexual. dated, uncountable

    "If we take the case of the person with the genitalia of one sex who nevertheless tries to imitate the sexual behavior of the opposite sex, we come upon the fairly frequent phenomenon of homosexualism, […]"

  2. 2
    a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex wordnet
  3. 3
    A purported ideology behind (and promoting) homosexuality; gayness viewed as an ideology rather than a sexual orientation. derogatory, uncountable

    "I agree with Christopher Wolfe's assessment of the social danger of the ideology of homosexualism : "The most significant harm of legitimizing active homosexuality — the way it would harm the family most — would be the educative[…]"

Etymology

From homosexual + -ism.

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